The panel put together by our finance minister two months back recommended that the clause of extension to non-parties of various bargaining councils be removed for small and medium enterprises. 

This recommendation would open the way for enormous job creation. This is not a new recommendation and one would have to look at the impact assessment of legislation passed since 1994, undertaken by a high-level panel headed by former president Kgalema Motlanthe. He was appointed by the fifth parliament to conduct the impact assessment of the legislation and make recommendations. ..

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